no reason to get married

As for Catholics, in the last four decades, the number of Catholic marriages in the United States -- not the rate of marriage, mind you, but the absolute number of marriages -- has fallen by half, and this at a time when Catholic population was surging 30 million higher. In one recent survey, more than half the young, unmarried Catholics in the country saw no reason to get married in the Church.

Russell Shaw in "Message Refused"